Reflection of Light
This is what happens to light when it bounces off a smooth shiny surface.
What is reflection?
This happens to light energy when it is absorbed by an object.
What is it turns into heat?
This is what happens to light when it passes through a transparent object.
What is transmission?
This is the speed of light in a vacuum, often referred to as a constant in physics.
What is approximately 300,000 kilometers per second?
This is the name of the band of colors that appears in the sky after rain.
What is a rainbow?
This type of mirror makes objects appear larger because it curves outward.
What is a convex mirror?
The color of this material is the result of its absorption of all the colors except the one it reflects.
What is a colored object?
This type of material allows almost all the light to pass through it.
What is transparent?
This is the natural light source that helps us see things during the day.
What is the Sun?
This is the process of splitting white light into its component colors.
What is dispersion?
This law states that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
What is the law of reflection?
Materials that absorb most of the light that hits them tend to be this color.
What is black?
These materials let some light through but scatter it, so objects can't be clearly seen through them.
What is translucent?
Light is part of this spectrum, which includes other types of waves like radio and X-rays.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
This is the shape that has angles and bends light to create a spectrum.
What is a prism?
This is what you call the imaginary line perpendicular to the surface where the light hits.
What is the normal line?
This term describes how well a material can absorb light.
What is optical density?
This is the term for the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
This phenomenon occurs when light waves overlap and combine, creating a pattern of light and dark bands.
What is interference?
The presence of these two colors often indicates upcoming questions about complementary colors.
What are red and green?
These are the two types of reflection based on surface texture: one on smooth surfaces and one on rough surfaces.
What are specular reflection and diffuse reflection?
Plants appear green because they absorb this part of light least efficiently.
What is green light?
This type of fiber uses light transmission to transfer data over long distances.
What is optical fiber?
This is a term for light waves oscillating in a single plane, often achieved with sunglasses to reduce glare.
What is polarization?
This is the term for the color model used in lighting technologies, featuring red, green, and blue as primary colors.
What is the RGB color model?